Forest Service Savannah River employees held their annual longleaf pine cone collection event at the Savannah River Site recently, gathering approximately 700 bushels of pine cones.

The society says thousands of those workers came to Savannah and built the Pine Gardens community. The Eli Whitney School was then eventually built on the land. “This historical marker, the Pine ...

Savannah Morning News. ... Some 57 million acres of longleaf pine forest once stretched across the southeast from Virginia to Texas. But much of it was clear-cut for timber by the early 20th century.